Wedding fever hits NYC as same-sex couples line up to marry

Source: MSNBC

You would have had to get up and out of the house pretty early on this hot and sultry morning in New York City if you wanted to beat Yolanda Potasinski to the punch.

Potasinksi, 55, had taken up her post at the corner of Worth and Centre Streets in downtown Manhattan, outside the City Clerk’s office, at 4:30 a.m., to be sure she’d be among the first to get a marriage license on a day she and her partner Nancy Mertzel had been waiting for since what felt like forever.

“I could not sleep,” Potasinski said, “I just couldn’t wait,” so she headed downtown, holding that precious spot until Mertzel and the couple’s two children joined her a few hours later.

By 7:30 this morning, the orderly, quietly celebratory line of same-sex couples inside metal police barriers stretched up one long city block, and it would not be long before it wrapped around the massive building. Some of the couples were dressed for the sweltering temperatures, while others dressed in spite of it, in tuxedos, suits, and a wedding dress or two.



Read more: http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/24/7154225-wedding-fever-hits-nyc-as-same-sex-couples-line-up-to-marry

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The picture says what I was going to say.

I look forward to the day when similar scenes can happen in courthouses in every state. :applause:

Makes me think of this song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8afojtw4UE

Soon, everyone will be gay married and no one will reproduce. Sigh. It's just like Pat Robertson said. :)

and this is among the reasons why. You go, New York!!!!!

good for the economy! Win, win, win!!!

:applause:

(that pic is wonderful-- such joy!)